Under the almond tree
By: Laura McVeigh
Publisher: Two Roads, an imprint of John Murray Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781473640849; 9781473640832; 9781473640856
Subjects: Fiction; Teenage girls; Refugees; Political refugees; Family secrets; Railroad stories; History; Storytelling - Fiction; Taliban
Description: Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.
Notes: Also issued in electronic version.